Journal of Financial Planning: June 2026 NOTE: Please be aware that the audio version, created with Amazon Polly, may contain mispronunciations. Executive Summary This study evaluated the consistency and fairness of financial recommendations generated by seven widely used GenAI tools across three core areas of household financial planning: emergency…
On any other day, the launch of a surprisingly good/competitive Muse Spark 1.1 from Meta Superintelligence Labs, including, for the first time, in the Meta Model API (signaling high confidence for broad usage and third party testing which is bearing out in their sister models ), would deserve title story status, but they had the misfortune of going up…
We’ve been running a bit of an Agent Cloud series surveying all the top inference/compute/cloud providers, from Databricks to Daytona to Railway and, even further back, E2B , but we’re excited to conclude this series returning to Modal, which has just raised a monster $355M Series C . The cloud was built for developers.
Before OpenAI’s GPT-3 ushered in the era of foundation models, companies built specialized natural language processing models from scratch, training each on large amounts of task-specific data. Today, most organizations start with a general-purpose model like OpenAI’s GPT series, Claude, or Llama and then fine-tune or prompt it to solve their specific needs.
Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend TL;DR : The transformers vLLM backend is now as fast (or faster) than custom vLLM implementations for many LLM architectures. Model authors can automatically leverage their transformers implementations to get ultra fast vLLM inference, for free.
Congrats to Meta Superintelligence on having the top 2/3 image/video models in the world! This would’ve been a candidate for a title story, but unfortunately that is pretty much all the detail we have about Muse Image/Video - no paper, no technical detail whatsoever.
Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it’s coming soon to Facebook and Messenger, according to an announcement on Tuesday .
Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute At Microsoft Build 2026, we announced Foundry Managed Compute and Hugging Face models on Foundry — a curated catalog of open-weight models from the Hugging Face ecosystem, refreshed weekly, deployable in one click onto Foundry Managed Compute. Weights are pre-staged in Azure, runtimes are built and scanned by…
While we congratulate (friend of the show!) General Intuition on their new model and (friend of the show!) Shunyu Yao on their new model , and the world awaits the release of GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra , people are racing to find the limits of Fable 5 before the subscription subsidy ends tomorrow . Thariq had been working on a “ Field Guide to Fable ” blog series,…
[Submitted on 2 Jul 2026] Title: LuxSQA: Ask Me in Luxembourgish with TTS-Augmented Spoken Question Answering View a PDF of the paper titled LuxSQA: Ask Me in Luxembourgish with TTS-Augmented Spoken Question Answering, by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Spoken Question Answering (SQA) remains largely…
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel a little insecure.
Ahmad Osman at the AI Engineer World’s Fair today. Ahmad Osman has been advocating for local AI — running models on your own computer, workstation or dedicated hardware — long before it became a major theme at this year’s AI Engineer World’s Fair .
Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages Every Eval Ever (EEE) and Hugging Face Community Evals are now intercompatible. We enable cross-posting and interpreting evaluation results, while linking to open models, leaderboards, and a unified standardized metadata store.
It’s an odd thing to say “not much happened” while running AIEWF workshops, but objectively, that is true - vibes were good but the wider world collectively took a breather to process that shock Germany loss today. In the meantime you can think though how to build better Skills, which is emerging as a top theme of the conference throughout the week.
Against the backdrop of ongoing Anthropic-Fable negotiations and a relaxation of Mythos controls, GPT-5.6 was announced today, but with limited access to trusted partners. It is Mythos-beating at a subset of coding agent tasks: But OpenAI took strong pains to explain that this model both Mythos-beating and also not as capable at Cyber as Mythos: GPT‑5.6…
Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command You can spin up a private, OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint on Hugging Face infrastructure with a single command — no servers to provision, no Kubernetes, pay-per-second. Once it's up, you can query it from your laptop, a notebook, or anywhere else.
[Submitted on 30 Apr 2026 ( v1 ), last revised 25 Jun 2026 (this version, v2)] Title: Small edits, large models: How Wikipedia advocacy shapes LLM values View a PDF of the paper titled Small edits, large models: How Wikipedia advocacy shapes LLM values, by Jasmine Brazilek and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Can a small group of…
We’re excited to have Databricks join us at AIEWF , among hundreds of the top companies in the AI Engineer ecosystem. LS subscribers can use their discount to get past the late bird pricing and access over $50k in sponsor offers !
AI Engineer World’s Fair regular bird tix will sell out ~today! Join us next week ahead of the Late Bird price hike and get >$40,000 in sponsor credits for attending !
Second batch of AI Leadership and Engineering+Workshops tickets for AI Engineer World’s Fair sold out last night! Last 500 tickets on sale now - get while stocks last!
Building Pakistan Notice Helper: A Small AI Tool for a Very Local Safety Problem For the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon , I wanted to build something practical, local, and useful beyond a demo. The result is Pakistan Notice Helper , a safety-focused AI tool that helps people in Pakistan understand suspicious messages before they click a link, call a…
Job Searcher Job hunting as a new grad is a full-time job by itself. You sift through hundreds of postings every week to find a handful worth applying to.
Do check out the excellent RL Env guide we posted today! And more lightning pods over the weekend, starting with our CommandCode remote pod on harness optimization for DeepSeek v4 Pro .
We’ve informally heard that Satya is a listener to LS for a couple years now, but it was still absolutely surreal to meet him and do a live pod at Build, together with our friends at No Priors , the leading VC AI Podcast that we also greatly admire! We covered the MAI model technical takeaways on yesterday’s AINews , so I will focus our recap of Satya’s…